One year ago, I shared the big book announcement.
If you want to help me write the book, make sure to read the next two sections...
LAST YEAR'S ANNOUNCEMENT
Well, I'm excited to announce that I signed a MAJOR book deal with Simon & Schuster!
The fact that they inked a "major" deal to a first-time author shows that we've been seen. We've been heard. And my new editors at Simon & Schuster have bet money that our message is ready to spread far and wide.
This is a big moment for me and for this movement we are leading.
Here is the official release on Publisher's Marketplace.
Our Shared Opportunity with the Book
This book will encapsulate everything I teach to help people reclaim their agency over information and to transform it into meaningful insights and creative breakthroughs. Nothing in the book is untested; everything inside has been forged through the fires of discerning, expectant individuals who make up this newsletter—and especially the individuals who have participated in the LYT workshops and community.
If you want to be a part of the inner circle making this book a reality...if you want to commit to reviewing early sections (maybe even chapters) of the book, this is your opportunity to raise your hand to apply to be a LYT Book Collaborator.
Collaborators will be featured in the Acknowledgement section of the book, adding your name to a timeless artifact in the human story when it's published in 2027.
UPDATE: If you filled out the form a year ago, we still have your answers on file. I will be emailing book collaborators very soon.
My Hopes for the Book
I hope we can spread to others the joy and empowerment that so many of us have felt along our journey of figuring out how to best work with information and ideas.
I hope we make something so good that people who have never heard the term PKM will find answers to the questions they didn't realize a whole tribe of us have been asking.
I hope to help people overcome feelings of being lost and anxious and overwhelmed by "too much information," and to give them a way to take the power back and reclaim agency over their own mind—not just by becoming a monk in the mountains (that's the easy way), but when we're staring into screens. Because the screen is the point of contact!
That's where we need the tools and techniques, the mindsets and methods, to not get sucked into the endless abyss of consumption, but to learn how to meaningfully engage with the ideas and insights that matter.
Onwards!
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To reiterate, I'm going to reach out to everyone who fills out that form, and I'm going to ask for a lot of different kinds of feedback from you.
In fact, for the next year, be prepared for me to mention the "Linking Your Thinking" book in almost all the newsletters.
It's crunch time, and I want you to be a part of this process because it's going to help me make the best book possible.
Let's start with one for everybody...
Linking Your Thinking: Which subtitle is best?
If the title of the book is "Linking Your Thinking" it means the subtitle has to help someone who has no clue about LYT to know what the book is actually about.
Don't like any of those subtitles? Email me what you think is better.
It's selfish not to share!
Why Haven't More People Watched "Halt and Catch Fire"?
Halt and Catch Fire is the best show you haven't watched.
Since I'm watching this show 10 years after it completed its airing, I have no one to share it with. My best place to go is the YouTube comments, in which I'll paste a few resonant quotes here.
- Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing. (That's from the show.)
- It's so rare to see real transformation on television.
- Halt and Catch Fire is a show about Failure, though rarely is that theme simply negative. Failure can be bittersweet, a successful failure, or an opportunity that opens up new doors. No other show runs with this particular theme so well.
Idea Exchange
Some advice for the journey. Spring means graduation, and Anna Holmes of The Atlantic recently shared a fantastic reading list here titled "Read These Books Before You Graduate". Regardless of your age or if you graduated recently, are some really meaningful reads. Mary Oliver, James Baldwin, Stephen King, and so many more. Let me know if you have a favorite from the list.
Bot traffic overtakes human web traffic for the first time. NBC News noted that especially with the growth and popularity of AI agents, humans are now the minority of traffic on the web. I'm still collecting my thoughts on this, but this does feel like the start of a continued shift. That being said, human-to-human connections represent the best parts of the internet today.
I'm grateful that LYT has an online community centered around exactly that. Honest shares, learning together, and connecting over this shared drive of improving our thinking.
Anyone else watching the NBA Finals? Wow. Game 4 was one for the history books. I bet I won't watch a better ending to a game in the NBA Finals ever again. Literally, a top 3 finish, alongside MJ's game-winning shot and LeBron's block, and definitely my favorite. Watch this 5-minute recap of the big highlights.
Stay connected,
Nick
P.S... If you haven't yet and are interested, learn how to set up your AI OS in my video.
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